Merabet Lotfi B, Kobayashi Masahito, Barton Jason, Pascual-Leone Alvaro
Laboratory for Magnetic Brain Stimulation, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Neurocase. 2003 Oct;9(5):436-40. doi: 10.1076/neur.9.5.436.16557.
Abstract We report a patient with visual hallucinations and illusions along with an associated visual field defect after bilateral ischemic damage to his occipital visual cortex. These hallucinations were long-standing and of both simple and complex (well-formed) type. Application of low frequency (1 Hz) repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) to the occipital cortex led to a complete cessation of visual hallucinatory symptoms. The use of TMS to probe the neurophysiology, and possibly alleviate, visual hallucinatory experiences is discussed.
摘要 我们报告了一名患者，其枕叶视觉皮层双侧缺血性损伤后出现视幻觉和错觉，并伴有相关的视野缺损。这些幻觉持续时间长，包括简单型和复杂型（形态完整型）。对枕叶皮层施加低频（1赫兹）重复经颅磁刺激（rTMS）可使视幻觉症状完全停止。本文讨论了使用经颅磁刺激来探究神经生理学以及可能缓解视幻觉体验的情况。
